[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 216 (Wednesday, November 6, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57406-57408]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-28465]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP97-55-000, et al.]


NorAm Gas Transmission Company, et al.; Natural Gas Certificate 
Filings

October 30, 1996.
    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. NorAm Gas Transmission Company

[Docket No. CP97-55-000]

    Take notice that on October 21, 1996, NorAm Gas Transmission 
Company (NGT), 525 Milam Street, P.O. Box 21734, Shreveport, Louisiana 
71151, filed in Docket No. CP97-55-000 a request pursuant to Sections 
157.205 and 157.211 of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural 
Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 157.211) for authorization to continue 
operating a 2-inch tap and 2-inch U-Shape meter station, located in 
Faulkner County, Arkansas, to provide transportation services to ARKLA, 
a distribution division of NorAm Energy Corporation (ARKLA) under NGT's 
blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-384-000, pursuant to 
Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act, all as more fully set forth in the 
request that is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    NGT proposes to continue operating a 2-inch tap and a 2-inch U-
Shape meter station on their Line B to provide transportation services 
under Subpart G of Part 284 of the Commission's Regulations. NGT states 
this tap was originally installed solely to provide services authorized 
under Section 311 of the Commission's Regulations, to ARKLA, and is 
located in Faulkner County, Arkansas.
    NGT advises that the estimated volumes to be delivered through 
these facilities are approximately 10,000 MMBtu annually and 30 MMBtu 
on a peak day on a firm basis to ARKLA's new Rural Extension No. 1391, 
consisting of 4,066 feet of 4-inch plastic pipe installed along state 
highway right-

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 of-way. NGT states the facilities were constructed in October, 1996, 
at an estimated cost of $3,316 and ARKLA will reimburse NGT $2,661 of 
the total construction cost.
    Comment date: December 16, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.

2. Equitrans, Inc.

[Docket No. CP97-57-000]

    Take notice that on October 21, 1996, Equitrans, Inc. (Equitrans), 
3500 Park Lane, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15275, filed in Docket No. 
CP97-57-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 157.212 of the 
Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 
157.212) for authorization to install one delivery tap under 
Equitrans's blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP83-508-000 and 
CP86-676-000 pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, all as more 
fully set forth in the request that is on file with the Commission and 
open to public inspection.
    Equitrans proposes to install the proposed delivery tap on 
Equitrans field gathering pipeline No. F-986 in Upshur County, West 
Virginia. The tap will be instituted to provide transportation 
deliveries to Equitable Gas for ultimate distribution to one 
residential customer. Equitrans will charge Equitable the applicable 
transportation rate contained in Equitrans FERC Gas Tariff on file with 
and approved by the Commission. Equitrans projects that the 1 Mcf per 
day of peak service requested within the entitlements of Equitable Gas, 
and will not impact Equitrans peak day and annual deliveries. Equitrans 
has sufficient capacity to accomplish the deliveries described herein 
without detriment to its other customers.
    Equitrans states that the new delivery tap is not prohibited by its 
existing tariff and the total volumes delivered to Equitable Gas will 
not exceed total volumes authorized prior to the request.
    Comment date: December 16, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.

3. NorAm Gas Transmission Company

[Docket No. CP97-62-000]

    Take notice that on October 23, 1996, NorAm Gas Transmission 
Company (NGT), 1600 Smith Street, Houston, Texas 77002, filed in the 
above docket a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 157.211 of the 
Regulations (18 CFR Sections 157.205 and 157.211) under its blanket 
certificate in Docket Nos. CP82-384-000 and CP82-384-001 to construct 
and operate certain facilities in Arkansas and Louisiana to deliver gas 
to ARKLA, a distribution division of NorAm Energy Corp., all as more 
fully set forth in the application which is on file with the Commission 
and open to public inspection.
    Specifically, NGT proposes to: (a) operate an existing 2-inch tap 
on NGT's Line AC in Pike County, Arkansas for delivery of natural gas 
to ARKLA's customers to other than the right-of-way grantor for whom 
the tap was originally installed; (b) construct and operate a new 2-
inch delivery tap and 2-inch U-Shape meter station on NGT's Line F in 
Bossier Parish, Louisiana, to provide an additional town border station 
for ARKLA to serve its Princeton system and, (c) construct and operate 
a new 2-inch delivery tap and 4-inch meter run on NGT's Line LIT-1 in 
Caddo Parish, Louisiana, to provide service to ARKLA.
    NGT states that the estimated volumes to be delivered through these 
facilities are 76,083 MMBtu annually and 346 MMBtu on a peak day. The 
facilities will be constructed at an estimated cost of $64,444, and 
ARKLA will reimburse NGT for all costs.
    NGT states that it will transport gas to ARKLA and provide service 
under its tariff, that the volumes delivered are within ARKLA's 
certificated entitlement and NGT's tariff does not prohibit the 
addition of new delivery points. NGT states that it has sufficient 
capacity to accomplish the deliveries without detriment or disadvantage 
to its other customers.
    Comment date: December 16, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.

4. Florida Gas Transmission Company

[Docket No. CP97-68-000]

    Take notice that on October 25, 1996, Florida Gas Transmission 
Company (Applicant), 1400 Smith Street, Suite 3963, Houston, Texas 
77251, filed under Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act, for authority 
to abandon, a certificated firm transportation service for Southern 
Natural Gas Company (SNG). The service is Applicant's Rate Schedule X-
22 in its FERC Gas Tariff, Original Volume No. 3. Applicant's proposal 
is more fully set forth in the application which is on file with the 
Commission and open to public inspection.
    Applicant states that FGT and SNG have agreed to end the gas 
transportation service agreement dated February 10, 1981 designated in 
FGT's Tariff as Rate Schedule X-22. FGT states that the proposed 
abandonment will not result in the abandonment of facilities or service 
to other customers.
    Comment date: November 20, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph F at the end of this notice.

5. Northern Natural Gas Company

[Docket No. CP97-69-000]

    Take notice that on October 25, 1996, Northern Natural Gas Company 
(Northern), 1111 South 103rd Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1000, filed 
in Docket No. CP97-69-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 
157.216 of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 
CFR 157.205, 157.216) for authorization to abandon a segment of 
pipeline in Saline County, Nebraska, under Northern's blanket 
certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-401-000, pursuant to Section 7 of 
the Natural Gas Act, all as more fully set forth in the request that is 
on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Northern proposes to abandon and remove approximately 1.2 miles of 
2-inch pipeline (the Wilber, Nebraska, branchline) and appurtenant 
facilities. It is stated that the line was installed to serve the town 
of Wilber, Nebraska, but is no longer needed to serve current customer 
needs. It is explained that the customers are served by another line, a 
3-inch loop line serving the Wilber Town Border Station, and that this 
line has adequate capacity to serve the customers formerly served by 
the 2-inch line. It is asserted that the proposed abandonment will not 
result in the abandonment of service to any of Northern's existing 
customers. It is further asserted that the customers served by the 2-
inch line have agreed to the abandonment.
    Comment date: December 16, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.

Standard Paragraphs

    F. Any person desiring to be heard or make any protest with 
reference to said filing should on or before the comment date file with 
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 
Washington, DC 20426, a motion to intervene or a protest in accordance 
with the requirements of the Commission's Rules of Practice and 
Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 385.214) and the Regulations under the 
Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.10). All protests filed with the Commission 
will be considered by it in determining the appropriate action to be 
taken but will not serve to make the protestants parties to the 
proceeding. Any person wishing to become a party to a proceeding or to 
participate as a party in any hearing therein must file a motion to 
intervene in accordance with the Commission's Rules.

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    Take further notice that, pursuant to the authority contained in 
and subject to jurisdiction conferred upon the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission by Sections 7 and 15 of the Natural Gas Act and 
the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, a hearing will be 
held without further notice before the Commission or its designee on 
this filing if no motion to intervene is filed within the time required 
herein, if the Commission on its own review of the matter finds that a 
grant of the certificate is required by the public convenience and 
necessity. If a motion for leave to intervene is timely filed, or if 
the Commission on its own motion believes that a formal hearing is 
required, further notice of such hearing will be duly given.
    Under the procedure herein provided for, unless otherwise advised, 
it will be unnecessary for the applicant to appear or be represented at 
the hearing.
    G. Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after 
the issuance of the instant notice by the Commission, file pursuant to 
Rule 214 of the Commission's Procedural Rules (18 CFR 385.214) a motion 
to intervene or notice of intervention and pursuant to Section 157.205 
of the Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) a protest 
to the request. If no protest is filed within the time allowed 
therefore, the proposed activity shall be deemed to be authorized 
effective the day after the time allowed for filing a protest. If a 
protest is filed and not withdrawn within 30 days after the time 
allowed for filing a protest, the instant request shall be treated as 
an application for authorization pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural 
Gas Act.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-28465 Filed 11-5-96; 8:45 am]
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